RN-DS Partnership - Forensic Reconstructions
In addition to archaeological reconstructions, the members of the partnership have, over many years, performed reconstructions of modern people to help in identification when the remains have been too badly damaged to identify in other ways.
Notable cases on which the partners have worked include:
- Karen Price - a teenager murdered in Cardiff in the early 1980s, but whose body was not discovered until 1989. The reconstruction was shown on BBC TV's "Crimewatch" programme, and led to the identification of Karen and the imprisonment of her murderers.
- Eila Karjalainen - a 23-year old Finnish nurse who had been hitchhiking around England in 1983. Her decomposed body was discovered in woods on the Blenheim estate in Oxfordshire; she had been strangled. The reconstruction confirmed the identity of the body was that of the nurse, whose rucksack and passport were discovered two miles away. Her killer has never been caught.
- Adnan Abdul Hameed Al-sane - a Kuwaiti businessman living in London. His headless body was discovered in December 1993 beneath the arches of Piccadilly Station, Manchester, and three months later his head was discovered in a field in Staffordshire. Both had been mutilated, presumably to stop the victim being identified. The reconstruction was extremely difficult, as the skull had been smashed into over 100 fragments. These had to be painstakingly reassembled, before the reconstruction could begin. The victim was identified, but the motive for the crime and the murderers themselves remain unknown.
